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Infographic of the Week - The Rise and Rise of Social Network Sites (and some falls!)

stephen — 2010-09-10T16:40:58+01:00

[Redhill Technologies] A little outdated now, but interesting to see just how crowded things got in 2004-5 and how so many have disappeared from the social map...

http://www.focus.com/fyi/other/boom-social-sites/

Infographic of the Week - What Types of People Raise Money for Web Startups?

stephen — 2010-08-16T12:02:46+01:00

[Redhill Technologies] Are you a white, male, 40 year old with a degree - why aren’t you looking for funding!? It would be interesting to see the same stats on who is giving the money as I imagine it would look very similar...

The full story is on Mashable and graphic was made by @lisawaananen.

I Don't Know Much about Art But I do Know my Algo Charts

stephen — 2010-08-13T12:28:46+01:00

[Redhill Technologies] Strangely artistic charts generated by algo trading engines. The data was gathered by Nanex and the story picked up by FT’s Alphaville.

Food For Thought Africa

stephen — 2010-08-04T10:52:55+01:00

Food for Thought Africa is a Northern Ireland based charity who aim to overcome poverty in Africa through education.

First Derivatives acquires Toronto-based Data Management consultancy LakeFront Data

stephen — 2010-08-02T16:55:45+01:00

[Redhill Technologies] An acquisition that seems to fit well into FD’s strategic movement in the area of reference data management.

http://www.bobsguide.com//guide/news/2010/Aug/2/First_Derivatives_acquires_Toronto%2dbased_Data_Management_consultancy_LakeFront_Data.html

Infographic of the Week - A 26 Year History of the FTSE 100

stephen — 2010-08-01T23:58:22+01:00

[Redhill Technologies] A fantastic set of infographics introducing the FTSE 100. Explaining the history, worth, and importance of the famous index.

These have been created by Jeremy Christopher, a graphic designer based in London ( jeremychristopherdesign.co.uk) and were first spotted on datavisualization.ch.

http://www.behance.net/gallery/FTSE-100/570269

CESR Says European Consolidated Tape is a "Necessity"

stephen — 2010-08-01T22:49:44+01:00

[Redhill Technologies] Following a similar call from FESE (see an earlier post) CESR are saying the European Consolidated Tape is a must.

The real question is now not “when” but “how” and by “whom”. That is, will it be led by the regulators or the industry. In Europe, both these camps have a lot of voices so either option will have its difficulties.

My own view is that it should be industry-led (CESR shares this view) and that the market data format is the key technical consideration. Steve Grob of Fidessa suggests the FIX Protocol could fit the bill in his blog. I’m no great fan of FIX for the high-speed dissemination of market data, but for a consolidated tape a standard and widely used format, like FIX, is critical.

Have your own say at my LinkedIn poll.

http://www.finextra.com/News/Fullstory.aspx?newsitemid=21657

TradeKing adds Twitter trade notes capability

stephen — 2010-07-27T21:35:48+01:00

[Redhill Technologies] Get your market data via twitter - latency may be an issue but you can’t argue with the price and convenience...

http://www.finextra.com/news/announcement.aspx?pressreleaseid=34962

NASDAQ OMX to Acquire World-Leading Market Surveillance System Provider SMARTS

stephen — 2010-07-27T19:48:45+01:00

[Redhill Technologies] A good deal for both NASDAQ and SMARTS.

Nasdaq gets a market leader in a niche, technically difficult market (and some very smart guys - pardon the pun!) and SMARTS gets the scale and clout it has lacked (and, I would assume, a large amount of cash).

http://www.a-teamgroup.com/article/nasdaq-omx-to-acquire-world-leading-market-surveillance-system-provider-smarts/

NYSE Euronext Creates European Corporate Bond Trading Platform

stephen — 2010-07-27T08:49:39+01:00

[Redhill Technologies] NYSE Euronext to help the Cassiopeia Committee kick start the European corporate bonds market with technology. Building on the successful NYSE Arca Europe model, NYSE will reuse UTP to deploy a pan-European MTF for corporate bonds (the “Cassiopée MTF” ).

Perhaps there is life yet in Paris (contrary to earlier reports!)

http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20100726-704733.html

Hedgie Buys Up European Stock of Cocoa

stephen — 2010-07-18T12:18:29+01:00

Armajaro, a London based hedge fund, is now the proud owner of 240,100 tonnes of cocoa (or 7% of annual global production!).

NYSE Euronext Opens ‘NYSE Euronext London’

stephen — 2010-07-17T22:58:39+01:00

[Redhill Technologies] While the name NYSE Euronext London covers most of the western hemisphere this is all about London and Paris.

It is both a significant entry to the London market, where the LSE is already being crowded out by Chi-X and BATS and a major move for the NYSE away from Paris.

NYSE Euronext has invested heavily in London recently (data centres, Smartpool, NYSE ARCA Europe, SuperFeed, etc.) leaving Paris with only the Euronext markets and the spiritual home of UTP development. Perhaps this marks the beginning of the end?

http://www.mondovisione.com/index.cfm?section=news&action=detail&id=91716

Infographic of the Week - Social Media in Business

stephen — 2010-07-16T09:48:50+01:00

[Redhill Technologies] Ivestigates at the adoption of the main social media tools (Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, blogs, etc.) by Fortune 100 companies.

Looks like they are shedding their Marketing Managers and signing up to Twitter (65% have an account and post 27 tweets on average per week!).

NYSE Arca Completes Migration To The UTP With Successful Rollout Of NYSE Arca And NYSE Amex Options

stephen — 2010-07-08T10:08:14+01:00

[Redhill Technologies] A big step in moving the Options markets on to UTP - really puts the “U” into UTP!

http://www.mondovisione.com/index.cfm?section=news&action=detail&id=91528

FESE: European Exchanges Launch Actions To Facilitate Equity Data Consolidation

stephen — 2010-07-08T10:06:00+01:00

[Redhill Technologies] “Official” backing for a move towards a consolidated European market data feed.

Much talk has been made of replicating the American CTS/CQS model here in Europe and while the likes of the NYSE Euronext SuperFeed is a step in the right direction it needs to be a MiFID enforced endeavour...

http://www.mondovisione.com/index.cfm?section=news&action=detail&id=91514

Chi-X Japan Receives Launch Approval

stephen — 2010-07-07T23:38:15+01:00

Chi-X Japan’s PTS license Granted - Trading Expected To Begin July 29

[Redhill Technologies] Japan’s first equities ATS. Has TSE done enough with its investment in technology (Arrowhead, NYSE Liffe) and price restructuring to maintain its grip on the Japanese trading markets? While TSE has had more time to shore up it defences, many European and North American incumbent exchanges have found the Chi-X mix of high-speed/low-cost/innovative trading model hard to compete with...
http://www.mondovisione.com/index.cfm?section=news&action=detail&id=91499

Infographic of the Week - How Google Works

stephen — 2010-07-07T12:58:59+01:00

[Redhill Technologies] Learn how google search works, a great post by PPC Blog

Peace of mind – One neuron at a time

stephen — 2010-07-01T14:33:05+01:00

Kids Company supports vulnerable children to help transform fragile lives providing sustained loving care so that they can manage their traumatic experiences of abuse, violence and neglect. Peace of Mind is a campaign trying to raise £5 million to aid this cause, and they need your help to spread their message.

Web 2.0 for Company 1.0

stephen — 2010-06-28T15:56:54+01:00

[Redhill Technologies] A short vlog on how we are using great web-based tools to drive our business for little or no costs.

NYSE Global Markets and the Asset Classes they Carry

stephen — 2010-06-27T12:09:51+01:00

[Redhill Technologies] The diagram below was created in response to a question (http://bit.ly/c218hR) originally asked by Aygul Umurzakova (http://bit.ly/ag9KLe) on LinkedIn.

Disclaimer: it’s based on my own experience and information freely available on the web (mostly the very good www.nyxdata.com).

NASDAQ And Xignite To Provide On-Demand Tick Data Via Cloud Computing Platform

stephen — 2010-06-22T23:06:00+01:00

[Redhill Technologies] A new solution to an old problem... While traders have always needed access to historical data to exercise their algos, solutions have generally been bespoke and data storage heavy (and therefore costly).

Pushing it into the “Cloud” and making it Data-On-Demand will certainly lower costs and provide an innovative solution but will bandwidth just become the new bottleneck?

http://www.mondovisione.com/index.cfm?section=news&action=detail&id=91196

Deutsche Börse Algo News Feed Now Available In Three Data Centers In London

stephen — 2010-06-23T10:56:39+01:00

[Redhill Technologies] DB expands access to AlphaFlash (it “delivers more than 150 machine readable macroeconomic indicators directly into trading algorithms” ). News continues to be a key piece of the market data jigsaw and so fast access to it is becoming a differentiator.

http://www.mondovisione.com/index.cfm?section=news&action=detail&id=91194

NYSE Technologies and Corvil Announce LatencyStats.com

stephen — 2010-06-22T19:54:51+01:00

[Redhill Technologies] A fascinating new website that shows key latency and bandwidth stats for market data on AcraBook and OpenBook realtime. A bold step from NYSE and hopefully more stats and markets will follow.

It also has the real potential to start defining an industry standard for the measurement of latency...

http://www.latencystats.com/blog/nyse-technologies-and-corvil-announce-latencystatscom

FSA Disbanded

stephen — 2010-06-17T10:37:00+01:00

[Redhill Technologies] So the emphasis is now on “macro-prudential regulation” or overseeing the whole financial system in a national context, but will changing the name on the door do that...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2010/jun/16/mervyn-king-oversee-financial-regulation

How will US Circuit Breaker Policy Affect Asia’s Markets?

stephen — 2010-05-26T21:51:00+01:00

[Redhill Technologies] Interesting view on how it will affect Asia...

http://www.asiaetrading.com/how-will-us-circuit-breaker-policy-affect-asias-markets/?offset=1

Flash crash prompts circuit breaker roll-out

stephen — 2010-05-26T21:46:52+01:00

[Redhill Technologies] This story rolls on, it seems they don’t know what caused it but they do know how to stop it happening in the future? Regardless, circuit breakers are a good idea...

http://www.finextra.com/news/fullstory.aspx?newsitemid=21401

FSMLabs TimeKeeper And Spectracom NetClock Deployed With Leading Financial Services Firms

stephen — 2010-05-20T19:44:47+01:00

Enable Trade Data Time-Stamping Accurate To Tens Of Microseconds Across Global Network

[Redhill Technologies] Clock sync’ing is a key concern in performance measurement and GPS an interesting part of the solution...

http://www.mondovisione.com/index.cfm?section=news&action=detail&id=90437

Top 10 Largest VC Recipients 0f 2010 So Far...

stephen — 2010-05-20T19:28:00+01:00

[Redhill Technologies] Quite a lot of Green-related business.

http://www.pehub.com/72345/10-largest-vc-recipients-of-2010-so-far/

TMX Information Processor Launches With All Canadian Marketplaces

stephen — 2010-05-13T11:07:54+01:00

[Redhill Technologies] This is a great example of an Exchange providing a complete range of consolidated data products. It’s also an innovative way for an incumbent exchange to take on the challenge of the MTFs...

http://www.mondovisione.com/index.cfm?section=news&action=detail&id=90344

High Frequency Trading Benefits from Fermi Architecture

stephen — 2010-05-08T19:32:31+01:00

[Redhill Technologies] HFT firms using high-end graphics cards...

http://www.hpcwire.com/offthewire/High-Frequency-Trading-Benefits-from-Fermi-Architecture-92997119.html

AePONA raises additional $10M from BlackBerry Partners Fund

stephen — 2010-05-07T21:02:00+01:00

[Redhill Technologies] Great news for a great firm

http://eu.techcrunch.com/2010/05/07/aepona-raises-additional-10m-from-blackberry-partners-fund/

Exchanges Consider Stock-Specific Circuit-Breakers

stephen — 2010-05-07T21:01:21+01:00

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703338004575230440147772822.html?mod=WSJ_Markets_LEFTTopNewsInt

NYSE Euronext Opens Its European Liquidity Data Centre

stephen — 2010-05-05T09:37:04+01:00

State-Of-The-Art Centre Ensures Lowest Latency Co-Lo Services And Market Connectivity
http://www.mondovisione.com/index.cfm?section=news&action=detail&id=90147

Visa Acquires Cybersource for $2BN

stephen — 2010-04-21T18:54:05+01:00

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE63K2HB20100421

European MTF Market Shrinks by One

stephen — 2010-04-28T19:50:46+01:00

http://www.finextra.com/news/fullstory.aspx?newsitemid=21335